4-525: Hawk Hill may refer to: Hawk Hill, California , a bird-watching site in the Marin Headlands Hawk Hill , the campus of Saint Joseph's University Hawk Hill (New York), an elevation in Otsego County, New York [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
8-780: Is a 923-foot (281 m) peak in the Marin Headlands , just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and across the Golden Gate strait from San Francisco, California . The hill is within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . It is the lookout point for the largest known flight of diurnal raptors in the Pacific states. Each autumn, from August into December, tens of thousands of hawks , kites , falcons , eagles , vultures , osprey , and harriers are funneled by
12-608: The peninsular shape of Marin County into the headlands. Hawks avoid flight over water since warm thermals that provide lift are rare. Abundant populations of small mammals protected by the park are one resource that helps maintain the large number of visiting raptors in the Headlands during the fall, but the strong onshore winds hitting the hills of the Headlands provide cold updrafts and hot late summer days provide warm thermals that allow these birds to fly more efficiently. Volunteers with
16-472: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hawk_Hill&oldid=1226033754 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hawk Hill, California Hawk Hill
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